Nothing is "meant to be thrown away."

[internetarchive@mastodon.archive.org]

Nothing is "meant to be thrown away." Not the MTV News archive. Not Gawker. Not the penny press of the 1800s. ️

Maria Bustillos argues that keeping the receipts is about more than nostalgia. It's about the raw material of history.

Read Maria’s essay & more in VANISHING CULTURE from the #InternetArchive

Download & read, FREE: https://archive.org/details/vanishing-culture-2026/page/77
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@maria #VanishingCulture #DigitalMemory #OpenAccess #Preservation

[essanay@sfba.social]

@internetarchive @maria When I see trashy magazines about movie stars in the checkout line, I roll my eyes.
But gossipy fan magazines from the silent era are *gold* (even though, in their time, they were just as frivolous and dumb as today's are now).
And they're there for browsing on the Internet Archive. We appreciate it.

[rocket@shitposter.world]

@internetarchive @maria we must preserve as much as we can from the pre-ai era.